The dumbest thing I’ve done this year
Posted on June 10, 2008 @ 11:18 am
My mother-in-law has a rather unique notion of what constitutes casual dinner conversation.
“So, what’s the dumbest thing you’ve done this year?” she asks, as if we’re suddenly playing a familiar party game.
It doesn’t take me long to come up with an answer. A few weeks ago, I was strolling across campus, happily listening to my iPod. Happily, that is, until I noticed an odd crackly distortion in my earbuds. Then, the sound briefly dropped from the right audio channel. A few seconds later, the right audio channel had returned, but the left was gone. My assumption? The earbuds are dying. Seems reasonable, right?
A few hours later, I was back home. I swapped out the presumably dying earbuds for a backup set. Much to my dismay, the distortion and dropouts were still there. My new hypothesis: the headphone jack is loose/corroded/busted/generally jacked up. In other words, it’s the iPod — not the earbuds. Of course, my iPod warranty had expired a few weeks earlier, and I’d need a plane ticket to get to the nearest Apple Store.
Knowing that I couldn’t live a day without my precious music-giving device, I bit the bullet, rushed out to Best Buy, and purchased a new iPod nano. I then returned home, charged it up, popped in my favorite earbuds, and heard…the same crackly distortion and stereo dropouts.
This couldn’t be right, could it? I tried the earbuds that were packaged with the new iPod and, lo and behold, the distortion was gone. Then, out of morbid curiosity, I tested out the new earbuds with the old, supposedly busted iPod. No distortion. Everything was crystal clear.
So, to recap, two sets of earbuds inexplicably failed on the same day, leading me to assume that it was my iPod — not the earbuds — that had a problem. So, I immediately ran out and dropped some cash on a new iPod, only to discover that there was nothing wrong with the old one in the first place. Of course, Best Buy wouldn’t accept a return on the new iPod since it had been opened.
Oh, well…I guess I have a backup iPod now for the next time mine dies. Or appears to have died.
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Take solace in the fact that having two sets of earbuds with the exact same problem seems highly unlikely… I wouldn’t fault you here. It makes for a good story.
Yeah. Not the greatest moment, but hey, having a backup iPod doesn’t hurt. I keep my old one in the glove compartment for music emergencies, ie. I forget my newer at home. It works out pretty well.
can i have your old ipod?
i’ll be your BEST FRIEND!